Auf den Spuren der richtigen Hegelschen Ästhetik

• Authors: Weiss J.

Title variants

EN

IN SEARCH OF THE REAL HEGELIAN AESTETICS

• Languages of publication: DE

Abstracts

EN

Heinrich Gustav Hotho (1802-1873) published the three-volume 'Ästhetik' (1835) four years after the death of Hegel. From archive research it has become clear that in the 'compilation' of his Hegelian 'Ästhetik' Hotho employed mainly his own lectures of 1823. This has led to the view that Hothos's 1823 lectures taken all together actually constitute Hegelian aesthetics. The present article seeks to challenge this notion. Hegel gave four series of lectures on aesthetics in Berlin in 1820/21, 1823, 1826, and 1828/29. Since he never wrote his own work on aesthetics, one might consider the edition of four series of lectures to be the 'real' Hegelian 'Ästhetik'. This amalgam conceals difficulties linked with the analysis of particular works of art. These difficulties are not resolved in the Hegelian 'Ästhetik', nor can they be with the edition of the lecture notes. Towards the end of the article, the author therefore comments on two other attempts at interpretation.

Keywords

EN

AESTHETICS; HEGEL G.W.F.

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 41-54
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Weiss J.

• J. Weiss, University of Pecs, Hungary,

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08CZAAAA04999505